ChatGPT report on Trump winning via lower educated voters
How 2024 Trump-voting states stack up on college attainment
State (Trump 2024) | Adults 25+ with a Bachelor’s degree or higher (ACS 2023) |
|---|---|
Utah | 36.9 % |
Kansas | 35.2 % |
North Carolina | 34.7 % |
Montana | 34.5 % |
Pennsylvania | 34.5 % |
Georgia | 34.2 % |
Nebraska | 34.1 % |
Florida | 33.2 % |
Texas | 33.1 % |
Wisconsin | 32.8 % |
Arizona | 32.6 % |
North Dakota | 32.3 % |
Missouri | 31.9 % |
Michigan | 31.8 % |
South Carolina | 31.5 % |
Alaska | 31.2 % |
Idaho | 31.2 % |
South Dakota | 31.1 % |
Iowa | 30.9 % |
Ohio | 30.9 % |
Tennessee | 30.4 % |
New Mexico | 30.2 % |
Wyoming | 29.9 % |
Indiana | 28.8 % |
Alabama | 27.8 % |
Oklahoma | 27.8 % |
Nevada | 27.4 % |
Kentucky | 27.0 % |
Louisiana | 26.6 % |
Arkansas | 25.1 % |
Mississippi | 24.2 % |
West Virginia | 23.3 % |
National baseline: 35.0 % of U.S. adults hold at least a bachelor’s degree. (worldpopulationreview.com)
Key findings
- Trump won 31 of 50 states in 2024. (Wikipedia)
- Average college-degree share across those 31 states is ≈ 30.9 % (median 31.2 %), 4 percentage points below the national average.
- Only two Trump states (Utah 36.9 %, Kansas 35.2 %) exceed the national rate.
- The lowest-attainment cluster—West Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky—sits 8-12 points under the U.S. average.
- Upper-Midwest and Mountain GOP wins (e.g., Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming) post mid-30 % figures—higher than the Deep South but still below the country overall.
- Pattern: 29 of the 31 Trump states fall short of the national bachelor’s share, confirming the broader 2024 trend that states with lower college attainment leaned more heavily Republican, with Utah and Kansas the notable outliers. (Axios highlighted Utah as the *“most-educated Trump state.”) (Axios)
What the numbers suggest
- Education gap remains wide: 2024 continued the post-2016 alignment where college-heavy states (e.g., MA 46.6 %, CO 44.7 %, NJ 42.9 %) favored Democrats, while most lower-attainment states moved further right.
- Regional nuance: Plains & Mountain states combine relatively high high-school completion with middling bachelor’s rates—enough to keep them GOP despite slowly rising college attainment.
- Outliers matter: Utah’s 37 % bachelor’s rate shows culture and religion can override educational correlations; Kansas barely clears the national bar yet still reflects its long GOP history.
- Policy angle: For campaign strategists or policy makers, economic and educational investments in these lower-degree states could shift or solidify future electoral coalitions.
Bottom line:
The 2024 map underscores a strong inverse relationship between a state’s share of college graduates and its likelihood of voting for Donald Trump—with just two exceptions out of 31 Republican states breaching the national college-degree average.
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I haven't double-checked this report but it looks correct, which tends to show that people that aren't smart enough to get through college are also most likely to vote Trump.
AOG, PhD
Comments
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Look at the Tug leftards. Supposedly college educated and one with a mythical MBA and a hypothetical law degree that can't put together any cogent argument espousing a policy preference. Who was correct on the chicom crud, non-college graduate Joe Rogan or credentialed St. Fow Chee? A wise man once said:
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One of the dumber posters here posted a word salad that no one will read
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That's my banker
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You mean "can't read." Trump himself writes at a level of grammar below elementary school proficiency. He is known for not being able to focus his attention long enough to read reports and staff reportedly want to put together FOX like news reports just so he will pay attention. The problem we have is idiots voting for idiots.
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Once again AOG proves my point. An opportunity to explain why Trump's policies are bad for the country and he is worried about grammar and "focus". Apparently he longs for the "sharp as a tack" dementia patient. Geezus.
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What did he think about Central? Buckley was kind of a snob you know. The Harvard crack probably came from the fact that he was a Yale man.
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Make a billion dollars and then pop off you fucking retard
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meltdown!
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Weirdo after weirdo with these TigTards, and they all have glaring personality oddities and also obsessive posting tics.
I do appreciate AOG because Ive never seen someone be so obviously and confidently wrong on something and then claim victory before he ghosts.
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LOL! Anyone who has a long career of hiring and firing needs to join in on this conversation.
The garbage the school systems are pumping into the workforce since the late 90's is astoundingly unqualified, unmotivated and completely void of any idea of what it takes to get promoted or succeed. No offense to anyone, I went to Aloha High School in Aloha OR so I can say this, if you are hiring someone from the public school systems (including higher ed) on the West coast, you will interview 10X more people to find one that fits than you had to 30 years ago. I went through this transition of quality to no-quality in candidates and it shook your belief in our country, especially parents and the school systems.
I could go on an on about liberals thinking they are smarter when deep down inside they know they aren't and are secretly lacking in self-confidence, which always manifests itself in their claim that everyone else is dumber than they are because they went to a liberal arts college and got degrees in literature or women's studies. They come out over 100K in debt and then expect everyone else to pay for their stupid mistake. Hardly intelligent individuals.
All one needs to review is the attack on Wall Street, the BLM riots, blindly following mask and distancing rules, the antifa crowd, and you see exactly what liberals look like. Liberals are not prepared for the real world so they try to destroy it.
